Moses Seymour, Jr.
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 120.7 × 90.2 cm · framed: 139.4 × 108.6 × 5.2 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. George S. Lockwood Jr. in loving memory of her husband
Accession Number
2003.285
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About this artwork
At the age of fifteen, Moses Seymour Jr., sat for a portrait that honors both its sitter and implicitly, his father, the former Revolutionary War major from Litchfield, Connecticut, who commissioned this work. Like so many American painters of his generation, Earl studied with Benjamin West in London. Upon his return, he practiced his profession in his native Connecticut River Valley. Seymour's book and cane suggest that the young man reads and walks in harmony among nature's beauties, an activi...